Turismo rural e agricultura familiar

This paper aims to show that the strengthening of family farming contributes to sustainable growth of the rural area and that tourism practiced in rural households, adds value to small agribusinessestablishments giving it more sustainable. The Family Farming is presented as responsible for the majority of jobs in the Brazilian countyside and that the rural tourism developed in those homesteads becomes a new source of income that also collaborates with: the revitalization of rural culture and preserving the natural environment. Also the paper presents how rural tourism is developed in Family Farming and how the activity is institutionally organized. Finally, opportunities and challenges are presented for Family Farming in Rural Tourism as a result of the advancement of agrarian reform and the rise of popular tourist as consumer. In this paper, it was used to describe and explain these social phenomena the bibliographic and the documentary research

Rural tourism · Rural Development and Agriculture